He said it was particularly troubling coming just before America’s Memorial Day holiday.
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A local Vietnam veteran who died a year ago will be inducted into the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s “In Memory” program in June. The Los Angeles memorial honoring prisoners and those missing in action during the Vietnam War has had to be covered with tarp on Memorial Day after authorities determined it was too badly damaged by graffiti to be quickly repaired. This is only one small step in the right direction to return to the solemn spirit of Memorial Day. Gen. John A. Logan, head of a Union army veteran’s group, declared May 30 as Memorial Day. After the Great War the day was expanded to honor those who have died in all American wars.
Another interesting tradition for Memorial Day is that on that day, the flag of the United States is raised briskly to the top of the staff and then solemnly lowered to half-staff, where it remains until noon.
Memorial Day is upon us. Metro officials said many of its names will have to be re-inscribed.
“As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation’s wars”.
Many Southern states, on the other hand, continued to honor their dead on separate days until after World War I. In 1971, the federal government appointed the last Monday in May as the official Memorial Day. “So we remember all veterans who died in service to their country, but this Memorial Day, we lift up those who died in Vietnam and we commend all of the names on the wall and their families to the love and care of God”.
The Civil War claimed more lives than any conflict in USA history, requiring the establishment of the country’s first national cemeteries.
It’s been my absolute pleasure the last 10 months to be involved in what I often consider an overwhelming project; designing the National World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C. I must admit that before I began I hadn’t given much thought to World War I. And in 2000, Congress passed the National Moment of Remembrance Act which encourages all citizens to pause wherever they are at 3pm on Memorial Day to remember the fallen.
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More than 100,000 more Union soldiers died in the Civil War than Confederate soldiers.
